Pressa va Ommaviy Axborot Vositalari Xodimlari Kuni Muborak!
Матбуот ва Оммавий Ахборот Воситалари Ходимлари Куни Муборак!

Congratulations to Uzbekistan’s truth-seeking and non-propagandist journalists, editors, publishers and employees of the print industry.
On June 27th, Uzbekistan celebrated the professional …

It seems that the EU and UNICEF are not happily helping ‘Humanitarian’ Karimova-Tillyaeva in her media lawsuit – but that’s not to say they don’t support her charitable work.

Urinboy Usmonov, a 10 year long journalist for BBC‘s Central Asian Service, was arrested on June 13th and is being held in Khujand, northern Tajikistan for suspicion membership in the Islamic Movement Hizb ut-Tahrir. His …

An ex-Kyrgyz national security service agent and two Kazakh students have been brought to court for the 2009 death of Kyrgyz opposition journalist Gennady Pavlyuk. neweurasia’s Tomyris reports. “Let’s hope that 2011 will shine a new light on press freedom in Kyrgyzstan,” she writes. “As Pavlyuk’s murder trial proceeds, may nothing short of ultimate justice prevail for this honorable journalist and his family.”

Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva – daughter of “dictatorial” Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov most recently known for her lawsuit against French news website Rue89 and journalist Augustin Scalbert for ‘libel’ – has sought support from the European Union (EU).
In …

Guljan Yergaliyeva, former editor of Svoboda Slova, hard-hitting critic of Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev, and human rights advocate imprisoned in 2006 for supporting Altynbek Sarsenbayev — is now stripping on YouTube, reports neweurasia’s Tomyris. “It has always felt claustrophobic wherever I’ve worked – radio, TV, press,” Yergaliyeva says. “The only thing left is the Internet.”

Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva, high-profile daughter of Uzbekistan’s President Islam Karimov, is suing the independent French news website Rue89 for ‘libel’ – for being called a “dictator’s daughter” who uses charity events and pays Western celebrities like …